Class Blogmeister - Free classroom blogging tool that offers blogs for teachers and students. Class Blogmeister provides teachers with a control panel for monitoring student blogs and comments. You will need to email David at Class Blogmeister in order to get a teacher registration code to create a classroom blogging account. Edublogs - Free blogging tool for teachers. With a teacher edublog account, students can comment to your blog entries and you can invite students to be guest blog authors. Gaggle - Free blogging and email services for teachers and students. Gaggle will filter and block blog posts and comments with inappropriate words. Imbee - Free blogging and social network for teachers and students. Adults must be verified through Imbee before they can create student accounts. Learnerblogs - Free blogging tool for students. With a student learnerblog accounts, students can have their own blogs for class activities. TypePad - Fee-based blogging tool for teachers and students. Word Press - Free open source blogging software. This is the software that runs Edublogs and Learnerblogs. You can create a free wordpress account or you can download the wordpress software to install on a site/district server. More Blogging Options - This page explores these blogging tools, and more, with expanded opinions.
RSS Aggregators
Bloglines - Free aggregator that will display blog posts and play podcasts in its own interface. For classrooms, the feature of sharing folders of RSS feeds can be useful. Google Reader - Free aggregator and search tool for blogs. Netvibes - Free aggregator that will display blog posts and play podcasts in its own interface.
Classroom Blogging Tools
Class Blogmeister - Free classroom blogging tool that offers blogs for teachers and students. Class Blogmeister provides teachers with a control panel for monitoring student blogs and comments. You will need to email David at Class Blogmeister in order to get a teacher registration code to create a classroom blogging account.Edublogs - Free blogging tool for teachers. With a teacher edublog account, students can comment to your blog entries and you can invite students to be guest blog authors.
Gaggle - Free blogging and email services for teachers and students. Gaggle will filter and block blog posts and comments with inappropriate words.
Imbee - Free blogging and social network for teachers and students. Adults must be verified through Imbee before they can create student accounts.
Learnerblogs - Free blogging tool for students. With a student learnerblog accounts, students can have their own blogs for class activities.
TypePad - Fee-based blogging tool for teachers and students.
Word Press - Free open source blogging software. This is the software that runs Edublogs and Learnerblogs. You can create a free wordpress account or you can download the wordpress software to install on a site/district server.
More Blogging Options - This page explores these blogging tools, and more, with expanded opinions.
RSS Aggregators
Bloglines - Free aggregator that will display blog posts and play podcasts in its own interface. For classrooms, the feature of sharing folders of RSS feeds can be useful.Google Reader - Free aggregator and search tool for blogs.
Netvibes - Free aggregator that will display blog posts and play podcasts in its own interface.